Compromise on the menu
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🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman podcast, Stephen Bush is joined by Patrick Maguire and Eleni Courea to talk through the latest compromises and deferrals on both sides of the Brexit debate. And in You Ask Us, they tackle the question of whether the one month custodial sentence for Fiona Onasanya is doing anyone any good.
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| 1:14.0 | Search AON Global Catastrophe Recap to get started. Hi I'm Stephen Helen's away this week so I'm joined by the rest of the N.S. Westminster team to discuss a fast-paced |
| 1:34.3 | week in Parliament. |
| 1:35.9 | And you ask us, should Foyona on Asania have gone to prison for one month. |
| 1:51.0 | Helen is away, so we decided to make a virtue out of necessity and said it just being me, the whole NS Westminster team has decamped from our desks in Parliament |
| 1:58.0 | to the podcast chamber. |
| 2:00.0 | So I'm joined by Patrick McGuire, political correspondent. |
| 2:02.8 | Hello. |
| 2:03.7 | And Elaney Korea, who's our Anthony Howard scholar. |
| 2:06.7 | Hello. |
| 2:07.7 | Right. |
| 2:08.7 | I mean, it's weird because I both feel it's been a busy week in politics |
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